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3. Sony being hacked was of interest because it recently produced The Interview a movie, that had all these high remarks about it and all a sudden people have threatened and hacked Sony to not play it in theaters. Sony is one of the top media sources out there and now have to take caution on how to deal with this issue. So Sony has now changed their viewing ways of the movie and cancelled the movie in most of all theaters, but they are now viewing it on youtube with your own risk.